Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

      President Trump was in Orlando, if you listened to him, there were thousands of his supporters in the overflow sections of the arena, and the Anyway Arena was filled to capacity. Without a doubt the arena was almost packed to capacity, but at 8:00 pm, there was no line, and you could still walk into the arena.

    The NAACP stands at a significant moment in time when racial subordination and racial hierarchy is being reinforced at the highest level of leadership in this country. The recent accounts of domestic terrorism at Black churches, images of Blackface populating the airwaves, the increase in hate crimes, and Black lives senselessly taken at the hands of over policing and brutality, shows that we are living in a world that often devalues us as people who have the right to live freely.